The media should be ashamed for inflaming these shootings without knowing exactly what happened or the series of events. Even assuming the cop over reacted from what I’ve read Philando was ordered to put his hands up and not reach for anything after he had told the officer he had a gun. Instead he proceeded to not comply at which point the officer fired on him.
I suppose this is the part I don’t understand. Is there just some kind of disconnect with certain people that they don’t listen to cops? The cop thinks you are a robbery suspect and you’ve already told him you have a gun and then you refuse to comply with a direct order? The cop doesn’t know anything but the fact that you could be reaching for a gun to blow him away.
The media and the political left have blood on their hands with their chronic race baiting of these situations. They are whipping up racial angst against police officers.
The political left does not care about getting people killed as log as the agenda is followed.
The media is not ashamed. They are proud.
“The cop doesn’t know anything but the fact that you could be reaching for a gun to blow him away.”
Correct.
Confronted with a gun this is what happens. First off, everything slows down, almost like super slow motion. You become so fixated on the gun and how you may survive that your brain begins to process to the exclusion of anything else. Anyone who has been in an auto accident where they see it coming has experienced the same thing.
If he was reaching for a gun, regardless of whether the officer acknowledged he had a CCW or not, after telling him to not go there, I guarantee everything went into super slomo for the copper. He probably heard nothing, nothing was allowed to permeate beyond exactly what was going on with the guys hand, where it was going to the gun and his rote response took over: pull, point shoot and fire.
My advice, if you have a CCW leave your hands on the steering wheel, make sure the officer acknowledges what you are saying and respond to his directions, period. Don’t assume anything. If you have a question about what he wants you to do, ask.